BAITOKUSAI A Gold Lacquer Five-Case Inrō Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryProperty of another ownerBAITOKUSAIA Gold Lacquer Five-Case Inrō Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryOf oval profile with applied cord-runners, decorated in polychrome lacquer on a gold fundame ground with Enma-ō, King of Hell, seated reading a scroll on one side and a halberd-wielding demon on the reverse, the interior nashiji, the shoulders and risers fundame, signed on the base Sensenkyo Shiba Jikō; fitted with a stag-antler manjū netsuke inset with an inlaid iron disk depicting Bishamon holding a miniature pagodaWith a wood storage box 2 3/4in (7cm) highThis artist appears to be otherwise unrecorded.